PowerShell and SQL Server Trigger

Question

I had the following trigger written but apparently our IT department has not set up server/account or whatever needs to be done to use SQL Server's DB Mail.
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[Faxiles_Trigger]
ON [dbo].[DummyFQF]
AFTER INSERT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @tableHTML NVARCHAR(MAX) ;
SET @tableHTML =
N'<H1>Fax Error Report</H1>' +
N'<table border="1">' +
N'<tr><th>[FileID]</th>
<th>[FaxID]</th>
<th>[FilePath]</th></tr>' +
CAST ( (
SELECT
td=T1.[FileID],' ',
td=T1.[FaxID],' ',
td=T1.[FilePath],' '
FROM
FaxQueueFiles as T1
INNER JOIN
FaxQueue as T2
ON
T1.[FaxID] = T2.[FaxID]
WHERE
T2.[DateAdded] between Dateadd(hour,-1,GETDATE()) and Getdate()
AND
T1.[FilePath] NOT LIKE 'C:\%'
FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE
) AS NVARCHAR(MAX) ) +
N'</table>' ;
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients='[email protected]',
@subject = 'Fax Error Report',
@body = @tableHTML,
@body_format = 'HTML';
END
How can I instead make the trigger envoke/call a powershell script that can perform the same query and send an e-mail?
Apparently we do have e-mail functionality for our scripts, so that part I can just copy/paste from a pre-existing script. What I don't know how to do (since I am brand new to powershell scripting) is save the results of a query into a HTML-f0rmatted table
as the body of the e-mail like I did with SQL.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
# Connect to the database.
$dbConnSites = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Main;Integrated Security=SSPI");
# Open database connection.
$dbConnSites.Open();
# Query String
$dbQry_BadTIFs = "
SELECT
T1.[FileID], T1.[FaxID], T1.[FilePath]
FROM
Main.FaxQueueFiles as T1
INNER JOIN
FaxQueue as T2
ON
T1.FaxID = T2.FaxID
WHERE
T2.[DateAdded] between DATEADD(hour,-1,GETDATE()) and GETDATE()
AND
T1.[FilePath] NOT LIKE 'C:\%'
# Create an SQL Command to execute the above query using the database connection object
$dbGetBadTIFs = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand(dbQry_BadTIFs, $dbConnSites);
# Reader object to read the results of the executed SQL Command
$dbGetBadTIFsReader = $dbGetBadTIFs.ExecuteReader();
# Loop through the results of GetBadTIFs
while ($dbGetBadTFIsReader.Read())
# Close all the database connections
$dbConnSites.Close();
The above code is what I've come up with so far.... So within my while loop I presume the E-mail will some how be generated?
Should I declare a new string object and concatenate within the loop?
# Start the HTML Table for the e-mail
$str_EmailBody = "
<H1>Fax Error Report<H1>
<TABLE border=`"1`">
<TR>
<TH>[FileID]</TH>
<TH>[FaxID]</TH>
<TH>[FilePath]</TH>
</TR>
</TABLE>
# Loop through the results of GetBadTIFs
# to fill out the HTML Table
while ($dbRdr_GetBadTIFs.Read())
$str_EmailBody += "???";
# Finish the HTML Table for the e-mail
$str_EmailBody += "
</TR>
</TABLE>";
-Nothing to see. Move along.

Answer 1

Hi Blacksaibot,
If you want to query the sql cmd and send eamil with the result, please refer this script, to save the result of the query, plrease try to create a sql datatable:
PowerShell Display Table In HTML Email
If I have any misunderstanding, please let me know.
Best Regards,
Anna